Images of Consulting: What Currently Shapes How We See Consulting and How It Works?

Sheila Marsh

Chapter 3 in The Feminine in Management Consulting, 2009, pp 68-110 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Exploring the terrain of management consulting must include asking how contemporary writers conceptualise management and organisational consulting, especially given its multifarious nature, as Weiss tartly describes: We [consultants] are an amalgam, a farrago, a gallimaufry of people who claim an umbrella title while actually performing in areas ranging from coaching to expert witness, from organizational diagnosis to sales training, and from technology implementation to compensation practices. (And from long-term, highly regarded practitioners to short-term hucksters peddling the latest magic bullet. Welcome to an unregulated profession, warts and all.) …so little in common that you’re hard pressed to find another word that embraces them short of “humanity”. (Weiss 2003:14)

Keywords: Impression Management; Management Consultant; Critical Management; Management Consult; Consult Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230594883_4

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